“As of 27 August, Barnabas contacts say the ‘targeted genocide’ of Christians by the extremists is continuing in the south, south-east and east of Addis Ababa.”
But no one cares, because the international media narrative is that Muslims are always victims and Christians are always perpetrators. This information doesn’t fit that template, and so will be ignored.
“At least 500 Ethiopian Christians reported slaughtered in relentless door-to-door attacks since June,” Barnabas Fund, September 1, 2020:
An Ethiopian Christian leader called for an international inquiry into the slaying of hundreds of Christians, including pregnant women, children and whole families, in ongoing Oromo Muslim extremist attacks in the parts of the Oromia regional state, extending south, south-east and east of Addis Ababa, since the end of June. According to reports, more than 500 were killed.
The coordinated killings, targeting Christians from a wide range of ethnicities including Oromo Christians, began soon after the alleged assassination of a popular Oromo singer, Hachallu Hundessa, who was shot dead on 29 June, while driving in the outskirts of the capital.
Ethiopia mapThe attackers are from the Oromo ethnic group, which has traditionally been Muslim, and are members of Qeerroo (meaning, “bachelors”), an Oromo male youth movement.
In door-to-door attacks on Christian households the Qeerroo extremists arrived in cars and, armed with guns, machetes, swords and spears, sought out and slaughtered Christians. Children were forced to witness their parents being brutally murdered with machetes.
Barnabas regional contacts confirmed attacks in numerous towns including Arsi Negele, Ziway, Shashemane, Gedeb Asasa, Kofele, Dodola, Adaba, Robe, Goba, Bale Agarfa, Chiro, Harar, Dire Dawa, Adama, Dera, Asela and Kembolcha, reaching to the far south-east and east of the country.
Some of the Qeerroo militants held lists of Christians and were helped by local authorities, often run by Muslims in the Oromia region, to find individuals, particularly those actively involved in supporting the Church.
Oromo ethnic Christians were also targeted. An Oromo Christian was beheaded for refusing to deny his faith by tearing off the thread around his neck (worn by many Ethiopian Christians as a sign of their baptism). His widow told Barnabas, “The attackers said that it is only he/she who prostrates with us before Allah for prayer who is considered an Oromo.”
Local witnesses said that police stood by and watched as the murders unfolded. However, contacts reported that, in Bale Agarfa, some Christians were saved by the intervention of courageous local Muslims who risked their own lives to protect them.
Christians’ business premises and houses were burnt down, vandalised or destroyed by the extremists. Billions of dollars of damage was caused to property, including businesses owned by internationally renowned Christian athlete, Haile Gebreselassie, in Ziway and Shashamahe towns.
The severity of the atrocities shocked local witnesses who gave accounts of harrowing scenes. In Dera, a witness described how the killers desecrated corpses by “dancing and singing, carrying the chopped or hacked body parts of those they slaughtered”. Another witness reported how the hacked bodies of an elderly Christian couple, who were beaten to death in their home, were dragged through the streets in Gedeb Asasa.
Thousands of traumatised survivors have fled for their lives, including orphaned children, and many are being sheltered in churches and community centres. A regional contact told Barnabas, “Many still live in fear. Christian leaders from all denominations visited the areas. I watched news where priests and pastors physically wept in tears while listened to horrors from the victims’ families.”
The Ethiopian government suspended the internet in the region for several weeks in an attempt to reduce incitement to violence through social media channels. Government security forces have been slow to intervene to halt the atrocity, which is being compared to the surge of murders that led up to the Rwandan genocide. However, thousands of arrests have since been made, according to regional reports, including local officials implicated in the attacks.
As of 27 August, Barnabas contacts say the “targeted genocide” of Christians by the extremists is continuing in the south, south-east and east of Addis Ababa. Ethiopian Christians in touch with Barnabas urge concerned readers and supporters to contact their Ethiopian embassy, to call for immediate action to bring to a halt the atrocities continuing in the Oromia regional state at this time.
High-profile Oromo media mogul, Jawar Mohammed, provoked unrest in Ethiopia in October 2019 when he criticised the government in tweets to his supporters. Violent protests ensued leading to 67 deaths. Around the same time, two pastors were beheaded in Sebeta, in the Oromia region to the south-east of Addis Ababa. A Barnabas contact added that many churches were burnt that year….
Mount Zion says
They should appeal to the US . Trump is the oly western President who I see willing and fit to protect Christians . My Good , it’s so bad , it’s like in the Nazitime when Jews were sent to concentration camps and murdered while all western countries stood by and watched , only when 6 Million Jews were dead , the US with the Allies intervened . There is a genocide in Nigeria going on , if Muslim Nations see that the UN doesn’t intervene then of course they feel emboldend to advance Allahs cause “Jihad” also in other muslim countries . Watch , if the UN doesn’t intervene in Ethiopia then other majority muslim countries will follow with the cleansing of their country “until the whole world be for Allah ..” God help us all , I’m not so sure anymore that something like that couldn’t happen across Europe .
Vladimir says
Orthodox Ethiopia has fought the Muslims for centuries, even conquered them under her kings. Now with a modern republic, the Muslims are rebellious of course and seek to destroy Ethiopia from within and from without. And as I’ve said elsewhere in the comment section, the project to dam the Nile goes on, and Muslim Egypt and Sudan may go to war to prevent it.
Mount Zion says
Poor muslims , they were conquered by the orthodox and now because of that they seek to destroy Ethiopia from within or was it Europe from within or America from wothin or any non muslim country from within .
Vladimir says
It’s what they do, whether from within or from without. To keep them civil requires vigilance and a clear understanding of them.
Nina says
No world can be like Allah please don’t make a cowardly comment. What I know is that muslims never liked good things to happen in their lives
Ismail Ali says
Opinion of satanic Nina is it .
James Lincoln says
Ismail Ali,
One thing that we can all count on here at Jihad Watch is that you will always give us the devout muslim point of view…
gravenimage says
Does Ismail Ali have a problem with his coreligionists murdering hundreds of Christians in Ethiopia? Not so he says.
J Morgan says
The Pope Must know. These priests that listen to the victims must be telling leadership – and yet the Pope is silent.
Rufolino says
The Pope used to have authority and people listened.
Now, except for the uneducated, that authority has gone.
Terrible words I know, but to many the Pope has become a pernicious nonentity. An influence much reduced but malign. Except to the Left.
DavidR says
Few Muslims are aware of how a U.S. led coalition halted the ethnic cleansing of Muslims during the Bosnian war in the early 1990s. Now imagine Muslims from around the World stepping in to save these beleaguered African Christians out of compassion and to restore their stained religion. It could happen. They believe in Buraq, the flying horse like thing that carried Muhammad all over the 7 heavens while he was bargaining with God.
gravenimage says
Don’t hold your breath, David.
Daniel Triplett says
Rather than sympathetic, the Ummah instead seems delighted by all these jihad attacks. Remember, all over the world they were dancing in the street on 9/11, including in Kuwait City which we had liberated 10 years prior and had spent the succeeding years defending them from Saddam.
I’m sure they think we’re dhimmi simps for risking our lives and spending our treasure defending them from their enemies.
Boycott Turkey says
Terrible news my heart goes out to the victims and there families more and more Christians being genocided and all the Muslim world talks about is how offended they are by the burning of the Koran but they are silent on jihadist who genocide Christians in Ethiopia I pray those evil terrorist are brought to justice and pay for there evil crimes
Ismail Ali says
Fake news from the pit of hell.
Joe Smallwood says
Why would it be fake news? Who could make this stuff up?
gravenimage says
+1
gravenimage says
Ethiopia: Muslims murder over 500 Christians since June, including pregnant women, children and whole families
…………..
Just horrifying–and virtually no coverage here in the West.
Ismail Ali says
You have said it all,no serious and professional media houses in the west that will engage in fake news and hate speech pendling.. Jihad watch is a satanic mouthpiece .they live on lies and rubbish from the pit of hell.
ronyvo says
This is the pit of Hell:
“I will instill terror into the hearts of the unbelievers, smite ye above their necks and smite all their finger-tips off them. It is not ye who slew them; it was God.” Surah 8:13-17.
“Fight against those who believe not in Allah nor the last day nor forbid that which has been forbidden by Allah and his messenger and those who acknowledge not the religion of truth among the people of the scripture, until they pay jiziah with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.” Surah 9:29
“Fight them, until there is no persecution and the religion is God’s” Surah 193
“O ye who believe! Take not the Jews and the Christians for your friends and protectors. They are but friends and protectors to each other. And he amongst you that turns to them is on of them.” Surah 5:51 & 3:28
“Kill the mushrikeen (polytheists, Christians and non-Muslims), wherever you find them, and capture them and besiege them, and lie in wait for them in each and every ambush”. Surah 9:5
“O you who believe! Fight those of the disbelievers who are close to you, and let them find harshness in you; and know that Allah is with those who are believers.” Surah 9:123
“And fight them until there is no more fitnah (disbelief and worshipping of others along with Allah) and (all and every king of) worship is for Allah (alone).” Surah 2:193
“Verily, Allah has purchased of the believers their lives and their properties for (the price) that theirs shall be the paradise. They fight in Allah cause, so they kill (others) and are killed. It is a promise in truth which is binding on Him in the Torah and the Gospel and the Koran.” Surah 9:111
“And whoever seeks a religion other than Islam, it will never be accepted of him” Surah 3:85
“O prophet, urge the believers to fight.” Surah 8:65
“The recompense of those who wage war against Allah and his messenger and do mischief in the land is only that they shall be killed or crucified or their hands and their feet be cut off from opposite sides, or be exiled from the land. That is their disgrace in this world and a great torment is theirs in the hereafter.” Surah 5:33
“Therefore, when ye meet the unbelievers (in fight-Jihad in Allah’s cause) those who disbelieve, smite (their) necks till when you have killed and wounded many of them, then bind a bond firmly (on them). Thus you are ordered by Allah to continue in carrying out Jihad against the unbelievers till they embrace Islam.” Surah 47:4
gravenimage says
Important points, ronyvo. This is exactly what Islam calls for.
gravenimage says
What utter crap. I bemoaned that these stories don’t receive enough coverage in the West–because the media is more focused on events in the West,l not because Muslims are not slaughtering Christians in Africa and the Middle East.
Ismail Ali knows that his own coreligionists brag about murdering Christians–if he *really* had a problem with this, he would take them up on it.
Then, his own “Prophet” and “holy books” call for the butchering of any non-Muslims who do not submit to Islam–and he has never condemned this.
Mike says
So where is the UN
o yea the UN is run by the Mu$lims
when will the world wake up
Ismail Ali says
Because it is fake news ,that’s why there is no response from united nations…ok
Giacomo Latta says
(Yawn)
gravenimage says
Ismail Ali’s claim that the UN has completely ignored Jihad terror is of course quite false:
“Boko Haram violence an ‘affront to humanity,’ Ban declares”
https://www.un.org/africarenewal/news/boko-haram-violence-affront-humanity-ban-declares-reaffirms-un-support-nigerian-government
And this, on Al Shebaab:
https://www.un.org/securitycouncil/sanctions/751/materials/summaries/entity/al-shabaab
The UN should be doing a lot more, no doubt–but Ismail Ali’s implication that they ignore this savagery completely is yet another lie.
tim gallagher says
Muslims doing what Muslims have always done and will always continue to go on doing until this rotten, neverendingly violent, murderous religious ideology , Islam, disappears from the world. What a curse it has been for the whole of its 1400 year history. And we are told by so many people to respect this satanically evil ideology.
Ismail Ali says
ISLAM ,the religion of peace has come to stay ,no matter whose ox is gored .
ronyvo says
Islam is on life support. It lasted that long because it was contained in the ME the civilized West had no idea about Islam, actually, they did not hear the word back then. Now, it exposed, Muslims are enjoying their triumphs through violence (fear) and deception (takyya), and the wealth from the oil revenue to buy the media. But, this all going eventually to end when PEOPLE would have enough and then act. America started the movement with the leadership of President Trump.
Just wait Ismail, or better advice COME TO JESUS and I promise you that you will have peace you’ve never felt before in your life/.
FYI says
“islam the religion of peace”?
Hey ,where is the PEACE?
Show me the money..I mean show me the PEACE.
Didn’t you say you want to overrun our countries?
muslims want to spread islam’s ‘peace’ through their dissembling,wickedness,moral depravity and of course murderous terror and violence.
They aim to do this via Political islam AND Religious islam:both aspects of islam are required in order to get their ‘caliphate’.
islam:the religion of “peace”.. with its doctrine of HATE{al walaa wal baraa},its religious Apartheid{see koran 98:6}. terror,violence and Jihadism?
the koran:the “perfect” book, so full of errors that by allah’s own criterion of koran 4:82 it cannot come from God but comes from ‘other than allah’,the book with Holes in the Standard Narrative?
muhammed:the “perfect” man with his imperfect physique{Abu Dawud 40:4731}his deranged personality who even admitted he was a false prophet{al tabari 6:111} and PROVED it by his death{‘my AORTA is cut’,a statement ONLY a false prophet could make koran 69:43-46}
islam with its false god allah{‘the BEST of deceivers’ koran 3:54},its false plagiarized scripture,its obvious false prophet.
islam the ‘true’ religion:what a Joke!
The Ox of islam is being gored to death..thanks to the internet.
tim gallagher says
I believe that enough of the slow learners among the non-Muslims of the world will wake up to what an evil, totally barbaric ideology Islam is and then it will be the beginning of the end for Islam. It is a primitive load of garbage, full of such absolute crap such as the fact that 8 year old girls can be married (what a joke!) and other primitive trash, and it should have become extinct ages ago. I agree with your comments, ronyvo and FYI.
gravenimage says
So Islam is a “religion of peace”, but Muslims have to threaten Infidels if they object to its violence…
Otis says
For years I have been warning my fellow Kenyans that we aren’t safe from jihad.Kenya is surrounded by jihad warriors on it’s border with Ethiopia to the north, north eastern border with Somalia and south coast border with Tanzania.Thanks to our security agents who killed Sheikh Aboud Rogo.This cleric radicalized hundred of youths at the Kenyan coast.Upon hearing about his death, some of these youths joined Al shabab in Somalia as others crossed the border with Tanzania and landed in Mozambique where they’re causing mayhem.Our security agents are thwarting attacks by these evil forces every month.It’s high time that non islamic communities in my country Kenya and Africa should join forces and combat this monster once and for all.Failure to which I foresee slavery in full swing in our countries.
gravenimage says
Agree, Otis.
Otis says
Mr Ismail you should be very careful.Your fellow Muslims have invaded other countries and you still have the gut to insult those opposed your evil ideology? Don’t be fooled!You are yet to reap what you have sown and it will be very hard.If you think that many kaffirs have surrendered,then you’re in for a rude shock, majority are waking up and have realized that Islam only want to slave and subjugate real peaceful people.
Francis Weber says
And the U.N. does nothing as usual!
mortimer says
Wherever large numbers of Muslims are led by Wahhabist clergy, there will be persecution of minorities and jihad.
gravenimage says
It’s not just the Wahhabis. All of Islam teaches the abuse of non-Muslims.
Livia Varju says
It’s incredible that few people in Christian countries care about the genocide of our Christian sisters and brothers! Pastors, priests, bishops, authorities, the EU, the UN, the media, they are just not interested! The Pope is least interested of all. He constantly defends Muslims and now is called Imam Francis. I have already left 3 churches after trying to convince them to aid the over 300 Christians in Africa, Middle East and Asia who suffer discrimination, persecution, torture, mutilations, genocide. The Hungarian Government is the only one who has created a Secretariat for persecuted Christians. They provide much aid but can’t do enough since the numbers are so high.
gravenimage says
Sad to hear.
OLD GUY says
How terrible! Islam murders another 500 christians and the media says dam near nothing about it.
Islam has to be the worst ideology not “religion” ever to be followed by humans. Why are so many people in the world afraid to recognize the danger of this CULT. The view of Islam being a religion of love and peace is pure BULLSHIT.
Its time the world recognize that Islam is a form of rule that has no room for anyone who isn’t a true believer or follower of Islamic law.
Islam is a dangerous ideology that will result in millions of deaths, slavery and the rape of women and children world wide. Its a DICTATORSHIP!!! and it wants to rule the world, GOD FORBID.